Dr. Dean's Second Opinion
Howard Dean is a DNC Chairman Emeritus, former presidential candidate, six-term Governor of Vermont, founder of Democracy for America, and physician. He works as an independent consultant focusing on health care, early childhood development, alternative energy and the expansion of grassroots politics around the world. Dean also serves as Chairman of the Board of the Progressive Book Club, and is a contributor on CNBC.
Republicans are ramping up attacks on President Obama's proposed health-care plan as he pushes Congress to pass the bills before summer. Howard Dean, the former chairman of the DNC, tells us what to like about the plan-and why 2009 won't be like 1993.
Obama vs. MoveOn
Matthew Yglesias is a Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. He is the author of Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats.
When the White House made noises about compromising on health care, MoveOn.org went on the attack. The Daily Beast's Matthew Yglesias on the political minefield that awaits the president and the Senate.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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